I've been into IT-sec for a few years now and I have recently gotten in to the whole reddit/r/netsec, twitter, security.stackexchange thing, to get more involved with the community. What surprises me ...

How to automatically search and download exploits which matches for example with kernel release ?
Is there for example a public REST web service which provide data in XML or JSON format to a client ...

I somehow noticed that there were numerous reports of security vulnerabilities of vsftpd 2.0.1~2.0.5; however, there just seems to be no public exploits.
The server I am working on has vsftpd 2.0.5 ...